
6 High Performance Programming for Soft Computing
1.3 Fuzzy Logic Systems
Fuzzy logic is a branch of artifi cial intelligence that is based on the concept
of perception; it gives the opportunity to obtain the approximate reasoning
emulating the human brain mechanism, from facts described using natural
language with uncertainty, it allows handling vague information or of
diffi cult specifi cation. Fuzziness concept is born when one is left to think
that all phenomena founded everyday may qualify under crisp sets, when
it is admitted the necessity of expressing mathematically vague concepts
that cannot be represented in an adequate way using crisp ...